Expatriates and professional visit pass-holders from the 23 countries, including Bangladesh, in the enforced entry ban list drawn up by Malaysia are now allowed to enter the country.

Microsoft Corp recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to three people who are briefed on the matter.

A large fire has erupted at Beirut port, sending a huge column of smoke above the city a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.

Bangladesh and Hungary have agreed to enhance cooperation in the field of nuclear energy and required training for skilled manpower.

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), providing a single dose each of Covid-19 vaccine to 7.8 billion people around the world will require the use of around 8,000 Boeing 747 cargo aircraft -- and planning needs to begin now.

Hundreds of homes have been lost to massive and unprecedented Oregon wildfires with a potentially historic number of fatalities feared in the northwestern US state, governor Kate Brown said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump savaged his Democratic opponent Joe Biden on Tuesday at the start of a tour of swing states, but seemed to concede that his reelection campaign is running out of donors, requiring him to dip into his own pocket.

Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed yesterday, as an economic slowdown amid the coronavirus pandemic had little long-term effect.

A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh yesterday +morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The attack killed at least 10 people.

Rapid population growth, lack of access to food and water and increased exposure to natural disasters mean more than 1 billion people face being displaced by 2050, according to a new analysis of global ecological threats.

More than 300 rights groups and other organisations called on the UN yesterday to launch an international investigation into Beijing’s human rights abuses, demanding “decisive action”.

Beijing yesterday claimed that Australia’s intelligence agency questioned foreign correspondents working for Chinese state-run media in June, seizing computers and mobile phones in raids apparently linked to a billowing spy scandal.

Dangerous dry winds whipped up California’s record-breaking wildfires and ignited new blazes Tuesday, as hundreds were evacuated by helicopter and tens of thousands were plunged into darkness by power outages across the western United States.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused yesterday of presiding over a “rogue state” as his government introduced legislation that intentionally breaches its EU withdrawal treaty in the messy countdown to a full Brexit divorce.

Disruptions to health services due to the pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at risk worldwide, the United Nations said yesterday, warning that Covid-19 could reverse decades of progress in reducing child mortality.

The United States is blocking visas for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers to prevent them from stealing sensitive research, Chad Wolf, acting head of the US Department of Homeland Security, says.

Nobel prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich has accused the authorities in Belarus of terrorizing their own people as another opposition politician was detained by masked men in plain clothes.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wanted widespread testing across Britain by the spring to allow people “to lead more normal lives”, describing the effort to get to mass testing as a “moonshot”.

Belarusian opposition politician Maria Kolesnikova is being detained under suspicion of state treason, as part of a criminal case involving an attempt to seize power, the Russian news agency RIA cited her lawyer as saying today.

The United States military has announced that it would be reducing its presence in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 troops this month, formalising a move that had been long expected.